This document explains the key terms and concepts related to Application-centric Google Cloud.
Application (also, App Hub application)
A logical grouping of services and workloads that together deliver a business function. In this grouping, services expose the end-to-end business functionality that workloads provide. For example, you can group all of the components that make up your online store or your chatbot into a single application.
In App Hub, you define applications by grouping existing Google Cloud resources as application components.
In Application Design Center, you define applications by creating, customizing, and configuring an instance of an application template called an application draft. You can then deploy the application from that draft. Learn about using App Design Center.
Application management boundary (also, boundary)
The collection of one or more Google Cloud projects or folders whose underlying resources App Hub can discover and you can group in applications. This collection defines the boundary where App Hub can manage application components.
You define the configuration of this boundary. For example, you can set the boundary to a single project or an entire folder of projects. To learn which application setup model best fits your business needs, see Choose your application setup model.
During setup, you define this boundary by creating attachments within the management project.
App-enabled folder
A Google Cloud folder that you configure to act as an application management boundary. This folder contains a management project to manage the